Friday, March 12, 2010

The Maricopa Unified School District is going to have act just like everybody else. They are going to have to get by with less money whether they like it or not. People are still losing their homes. People are bugging out. Taxation is not the answer.

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Maybe they can sell that fancy new administration building and restructure the bus routes so they are no longer running half empty buses several times a day. Maybe the overpaid administrators that really don’t do anything beneficial, should take a salary cut.

MUSD Board: Rausch presents tax override info

At the Maricopa Unified School District (MUSD) Governing Board meeting on January 13, Director of Business Services Aron Rausch presented information about the upcoming tax override vote. The tax override vote will be on the March 9 ballot.

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The override was passed on May 17, 2005, and provided full funding of the override through the 2009/2010 school year. The override endeavors to continue funding at the existing rate of $63.40 a year on a home with an assessed value of $100,000. If this override is not continued, the tax will be reduced by 1/3 in 2010/2011, 2/3 in 2011/2012, and will totally expire in 2012/2013.http://www.copanews.com/Article.aspx?ID=776

For the second time in five months, this matter was put to a vote. Both times, the people voted against this measure. What part of “NO” don’t they understand? I’m sure the school administrators are against the voting process and our rights as citizens at this point. Like most politicians, they want to tax and spend like there‘s no tomorrow.

The political hacks at the school district couldn’t take “NO” for an answer the first time. Like fools chasing after money, they wasted even more taxpayer dollars putting it on the ballot a second time. Here, in precinct 54, it was the only item on the ballot. I’m sure they will try again as they are what I like to call “spoiled sports”.

Don’t forget, a recent study determined that close to half of tax money(45%) devoted to education, never makes it to the students. It pays salaries and buys fancy buildings to show off to neighboring school districts. Otherwise, the money is foolishly squandered.

I still think renters should be paying school taxes. Why aren’t they being expected to put something into the “kitty”? Don’t renters have children? At $903/month, I live at the poverty level and still fork out 14% of my annual income on property taxes and 65% to keep a roof over my head before utilities. I lived without heat for yet another winter. It’s not fair that I’m paying school taxes to educate other people’s kids. I have no kids attending school myself. Many of these kids have absolutely no desire to learn and aren’t worth wasting money on. The double digit drop out rate and county jail populations prove this.

Despite popular opinion, the number of dollars spent on a student is not directly proportional to the quality of education that student receives. Some kids are just plain stupid and all the money in the world won’t make them learn. Too bad, it’s politically incorrect to come out and say that. If we offend people, they might just pull their heads out of their rectums and get a clue. Otherwise, they will remain clueless and oblivious to reality.

Children might actually learn, if the education dollars came directly out of the parent’s pockets. After all, parents would demand that they get what they pay for. I’m sure they would also take a more active role in their children’s education if they were actually paying for it. Instead, parents blame the teachers rather than themselves. Parents need to motivate their children. The blame shifting needs to stop.

On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, I entered the polls at Precinct 54 and cast yet another “NO” vote. Voter turnout was pathetic. The polls were open for two hours and I was the third voter. It’s appalling that so many people didn’t bother to exercise their right to vote. Our Founding Fathers fought and died for this basic right. Apathy is an indicator of a dying society and Maricopa, from my vantage point, is dying a slow death.

MUSD mulls $9 million budget cut in wake of override failure

A failed override, coupled with possible state cuts, could leave Maricopa Unified School District leadership looking for areas to cut potentially $9 million from a roughly $30 million operating budget.

Once again, anti-Thunderbird Farms sentiment has shown its’ ugly face. A few months ago, some snobs from the newer subdivisions stated that they didn’t want “trailer trash” kids from the from the mini-farms area going to the same schools as the "uppity suburbanites". At least we were smart enough to buy affordable homes. We are not upside-down in our mortgages and we own more of our homes than the bank. How many of you "suburb dwellers" put more than 25% down? Could any of you handle a 15-year note? My home is still worth more than I paid for it. Is yours? Who will have the last laugh?

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As you read this strongly biased article that lacks objectivity, it’s clear that anyone that voted against this issue is now labeled a ”dissenter”, particularly, if they live in Thunderbird Farms. I will wear that title as a badge of honor. The childish name calling from pseudo-journalists has never bothered me. In fact, I’m used to it. That is what liberals do.

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Get this through your thick skulls, once and for all. Stop the out of control taxation and excessive spending. Enough is enough!

"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome." --George Orwell

Monday, March 8, 2010

As I mentioned in last Monday’s food bank blog, a woman(a Hispanic or Indian female bipedal primate) that drives a very expensive Lincoln pick up truck makes regular visits to the F.O.R. Food Bank. She was there this morning. She is so needy that she needs food donations, but is able to spend time at Harrah’s Ak Chin Casino and enjoy extra services such as valet parking.

She apparently had enough gasoline to afford two trips. She signed up, left and returned a couple of hours later. I guess she was out trying her luck on the slots. People like this need to be exposed and humiliated in public.

When I saw her pull up, I got my camera ready and took a few pictures. She was too lazy to get her fat ass out of the truck and sign in. She expected someone to bring the sign up sheet over to her. She was also too lazy to park like everyone else. She parked in such a manner as to block in other vehicles. She sat there long enough with her doors open, lights on and radio playing that when it was time for her to depart, she couldn’t because she wore down her battery. She had to get a jump start. If it were me, I would have made her walk home in the rain and through the mud.

I have some really bad news for her. There are no attendants, pursers, porters, maids, servants or parking valets at the food bank. People are not there to serve her every little trivial need like it’s some kind of luxury spa.

Someday, just for fun and something to do, I may follow her around for a few hours and see what else she is up to. Of course, you will be able to read and see what I discover.

I later learned that my "fat ass" comment made it to the lazy and inconsiderate driver of that Lincoln truck. Apparently, a couple people didn't like it, but others completely agreed with me.

I look forward to Monday mornings at the F.O.R. Food Bank. I get to hang out with some of my retirement buddies for a few hours while I get to observe and photograph some of the lowest forms of life on Earth that show up for handouts they think they are “entitled” to.

I couldn’t help but notice that many of the Mexicans that were asked to bring in identification or a current utility bill didn’t bother to show up this morning. I was not at all surprised that these interlopers and usurpers were not capable of producing the requested documents. Can anybody say “illegal alien”?

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I can't quite say why, but the woman in the Lincoln truck reminded me of the woman in this story:

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Sharon Jasper, a Resident of Section 8 Housing in New Orleans

'Don't be fooled by them hardwood floors,' says Sharon. 'They told me they were putting in scraped wood floors cause it was more expensive and elegant, but I am not a fool "that was just a way to make me take scratched up wood because I am black. The 60 inch HD TV? It may look nice but it is not a plasma. It's not a plasma because I'm black. Now they want me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump.' 'Do you know why?'

Note: The person leaning against the truck in the photograph is not the owner/occupant.

Between $115.7 billion and $126.7 billion per year is spent on providing welfare and various family and social services, food stamps, free school lunches, WIC and medical programs (i.e.: Medicaid) to illegal aliens.

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Quotations

We can have peace and security only as long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against dilution by foreign races. It is time to turn from our quarrels and to build our White ramparts again. This alliance with foreign races means nothing but death to us. It is our turn to guard our heritage..before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea.

--Charles A. Lindbergh Readers Digest, Nov. 1939

Rudyard Kipling's Insight

The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon

It was not part of their blood It came to them very lateWith long arrears to make good,When the SAXONS began to hate,

They were not easily moved,They were icy-willing to waitTill every count should be proved

Ere the SAXONS began to hate.Their voices were even and low,Their eyes were level and straight,There was neither sign nor show,

When the SAXONS began to hate.It was not preached to the crowdIt was not taught by the State,No man spoke it aloud,When the SAXONS began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred,It will not swiftly abateThrough the chilled years aheadWhen Time shall count from the dateThat the SAXONS began to hate."

The Strangerby Rudyard Kipling (1908.. but timeless perspective on immigration.)

The Stranger within my gate,He may be true or kind,But he does not talk my talk—I cannot feel his mind.I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,But not the soul behind.

The men of my own stock,They may do ill or well,But they tell the lies I am wonted to,They are used to the lies I tell;And we do not need interpretersWhen we go to buy or sell.

The Stranger within my gates,He may be evil or good,But I cannot tell what powers control—What reasons sway his mood;Nor when the Gods of his far-off landShall repossess his blood.

The men of my own stock,Bitter bad they may be,But, at least, they hear the things I hear,And see the things I see;And whatever I think of them and their likes

They think of the likes of me.This was my father's beliefAnd this is also mine:Let the corn be all one sheaf—

And the grapes be all one vine,Ere our children's teeth are set on edgeBy bitter bread and wine.

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